RE: My sympathies for pantheism
March 29, 2014 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2014 at 12:40 pm by Alex K.)
I don't understand your statement about the laws of physics constraining our brains vs nature yet, but it sounds deep, ill get back to it later...
Concerning the electrons, the strange thing indeed is that they behave like waves as long as you are not trying to measure their position, at which point they suddenly stop behaving like waves. The classical example is the double slit: the many dots on the screen from the individual photons are distributed like a interference pattern, but as soon as you try to find out through which slit they go individually, the interference pattern goes away. If you study the mathematics of quantum mechanics a bit, you learn a language which helps you to organize these thoughts in your head, something that is I think much harder if you lack this tool. I agree that we aren't evolved to understand it, but I don't think it is impossible to grasp at least the important aspects of it, or not more impossible than any complicated physical system. I think today's leading experts on quantum information, entanglement, tests of qm and so on, understand quantum mechanics much better than did its inventors, or even the generation of feynman and co.
Concerning the electrons, the strange thing indeed is that they behave like waves as long as you are not trying to measure their position, at which point they suddenly stop behaving like waves. The classical example is the double slit: the many dots on the screen from the individual photons are distributed like a interference pattern, but as soon as you try to find out through which slit they go individually, the interference pattern goes away. If you study the mathematics of quantum mechanics a bit, you learn a language which helps you to organize these thoughts in your head, something that is I think much harder if you lack this tool. I agree that we aren't evolved to understand it, but I don't think it is impossible to grasp at least the important aspects of it, or not more impossible than any complicated physical system. I think today's leading experts on quantum information, entanglement, tests of qm and so on, understand quantum mechanics much better than did its inventors, or even the generation of feynman and co.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
